It’s also meaningless because the surveys for SPECIFIC movies are pretty much what you’d expect: the majority of people would prefer to watch them in theaters, but aren’t exactly married to the idea. https://variety.com/2020/film/news/wonder-woman-1984-tenet-james-bond-theater-preference-survey-1234738046/

The game had MAJOR performance issues on current gen consoles, even Xbox One X, where opening the map overlay would frequently turn the game into a slideshow, and sometimes didn’t even display location tags. Combat was really stuttery, too. The least they could do for people who put up with that is give them the…

I think what Remyton_Prime is saying is that, if it’s really just up to the developers anyway, then most of them are going to pull stunts like this and/or stop doing cross-releases in the near future anyway. In which case, regardless of whether Microsoft intended Smart Delivery to be a marketing gimmick, it WOULD be…

Gee, maybe if I knew that there was going to be an “Ultimate Edition” at the same time as the second DLC, AND it would cost just $10 more than the DLC BY ITSELF, AND would let me upgrade to next-gen, I wouldn’t have bought their $30 season pass.

Fuck me for trusting them, I guess.

I agree with Sam that this is probably related to the online response to the graphics. Despite their late claims that it was a “work in progress” version, I don’t think they would have shown it off this close to its intended release unless that was pretty much what they intended it to look like. As long as all Series…

I think Soul Calibur 2 was a little different, though, because each platform got a character, the characters were ones that were associated with the console’s brand (well, except for Spawn), and they were just 1 character in a roster of around 20. In this case, it’s 1 of the 9 announced characters in a game all about…

Nobody’s arguing that this doesn’t make business sense for Sony, they’re saying that it’s shitty and anti-consumer. There’s literally no upside to any player that Spider-Man is Playstation exclusive. All it does is put more money in Square Enix’s pockets (for the deal), and ensure a higher percentage of the game sales…

No, they didn’t “buy a gift for their consumers,” they just paid extra to make sure that other people can’t access something. It’s not like Spider-Man is only in Avengers because Sony was kind enough to make it happen. They were obviously going to put the most popular Marvel character in their Avengers game at some…

If you buy a physical copy of a game, you own it and can theoretically play it forever (as long as it’s not online-only and dependent on a server). If you buy a game on Stadia and Stadia is discontinued, you no longer have that game. Given Google’s history of giving up on platforms, that’s a concern, especially when…

What are you talking about? Game Pass Ultimate ALREADY INCLUDES GOLD.

Gold is already bundled into Game Pass Ultimate. and it includes more than 100 games on PC and Xbox. So now you get all that plus 100 games streaming on Android. It’s crazy to classify that as a worse service than Stadia.

It would be nice if at the very least, games that don’t take advantage of PS5-specific features would be playable with PS4 controllers. History suggests that would be almost all of them.

No links here, but I think he means a mastery of the film medium (the “form”), using all of the tools available to him (cinematography, editing, sound design, performance) in unison to fully communicate his vision.

FWIW, there’s a pretty reasonable story reason why she has that tattoo.

Yeah, I didn’t mean it as “look at me in my infinite, aged wisdom.” It just seems like there’s no way to theorize that somehow people didn’t realize that blackface was offensive before 2007 unless you were too young in the early-00s to really remember things.

It’s like a younger generation acting as cultural…

I’m old enough to actually remember the early 00s, and black face was definitely not “acceptable.”. I can think of shows where it was used, but the joke was always that the person doing it was doing something completely terrible.

“Aside from?” EVERY game should end with you fist-fighting the pope in secret, ancient, super-high-tech vault under the Vatican.

I’m still early (about an hour and a half in), but the game definitely seems designed for people who played the original. The 1997 game was really smart in the way it treated its narrative episodically, letting the player digest one plotline at a time. It would hint at other things, but whatever plotline you were…

I agree that it’ll never get to Biden’s desk if he becomes president. That’s yet another reason why stating that you’d veto it is a stupid fucking thing to do in the lead-up to an election, in which you NEED the support of Bernie’s movement. If it doesn’t matter either way, then why say the thing that’s just going to…

Haha you’re calling yourself a “dinosaur” for watching videos on a platform that didn’t even exist for me until i was in college.